Of Shopping Carts and Global Macronomics

I told a friend that I would post this, so here it is:

How shopping carts can make a change in global economic outlooks.

Consider for a moment if you will, the humble shopping cart. It is a simple every day thing that you do not pay much attention to yet of a huge significance. You use it and put it back in its little coral and that is it.

Congratulations, you just caused a global economic downturn.

It works like this see; you put away your shopping cart. The direct effect of returning it to its little coral is that it takes fewer people fewer man hours* to pick up all the carts. So your local big box store cuts back hours since there is no need for them to have a fully staffed group of minions. This leads to a loss in the local area of income that can be spent. This causes prices to rise and companies to continue to cut hours and personnel to try to keep up their profit margin. Eventually people begin to move where there is more work and therefore change the point of the economic pressure from a local economic downturn to a regional one. Then as this begins to spread, city services begin to be cut due to a loss of tax revenue and therefore services begin to cause an upswing in residential fires due to a lack of fire protection and as follows an upswing in the crime rate due to a lower police presence. The area begins to suffer more and more and this has the regional ripple effect causing entire areas of the country to begin not only a population shift, but also an economic shift. This causes a drop in the purchase of durable goods and therefore begins to affect the overseas markets that are tied to the strength of the US dollar. Foreign currencies begin to madly fluctuate causing instability in the global stock markets and that can cause a run on the brokerages This in turn as consumers begin to loose confidence causes runs on the local banks that must be propped up by the Federal Reserve who then raises interest rates to slow the bank to bank borrowing of money. People start closing accounts and the federal banking system collapses, leaving the United States economy a smoking ruin with the global markets to follow in about 72 hours.

You just had to put that shopping cart away, didn't you?

But there is hope. Leave that shopping cart out in the parking lot. Better yet, take it to the opposite side of the shopping center. Think of it as job creation.


(*I don't use person-hours, sorry. That would be like saying "Gifted Macro Mammal Power" instead of horse power. Go pedal your politically correct crazy elsewhere, we are full up thanks.
We happen to be local producers. Go local - Go Crazy!)

Till next time,
Be mindful and awake.

Random thought

Ever have one of those days when freebaseing cornflakes sounds like a good idea?

Things to think about

Hey everyone, I'm not dead.
Just real busy but I got hit with something today as I am a lover of conspiracy's muse.
Consider the following headlines:
Is the CIA counterfeiting dollars and blaming it on North Korea?
Unusual Vapor Trail Causes Speculation of Top Secret 'Pulse Jet' Tests.
Police hunting mystery swordsman
Mystery as thousands of birds fall from sky
New York probes 'gas-like odor'
'Space Junk' Bursts Into Flames
Metal Object Crashes Through N.J. Home

Even to those who are skeptics, something is going on...break out your tinfoil hats!
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake.

It is all over now, but for the wrapping papers.

Well, the Snowball is over. And I think I can sum up the whole thing in one word:
WOW
That describes the staff, the Filets de Mignon, the site, the feast, the pain and the aftermath. Now, let me single out a bunch of people myself. I?ll start with 2 in particular, Judi (Ldy. Fionnseach de Lochielle) and Liz (Ldy .Anne de Mignon). Not only did they both have jobs of their own with Judi being Feastocrat and Liz being Deputy Autocrat they both kept me from loosing what little mind I had left. ÿI hereby say publicly without these two there would not have been an event. Period. The Filets de Mignon were a treat to have and was something to behold! I had a merchant comment to me ?We just love your Filets. There were so helpful and like army ants. They just swarmed in and everything was done?. Oh yeah, Rock on! You all rule at throwing in and lending a hand on every scutt job we could seem to think of, and almostÿalways replying with ?What next?. Thank you again. Special thanks go out to Meridith and Dirk for their help with feast and keeping Judi caffeinated and someone sane. Then there is Mary Beth (
Ldy Rowen) whose expertise and calm manner helped keep lunch going and feast on track, jumpingÿin to organize the servers when most of us had no clue as to what to do. You go girl! Now, forÿthe Ball part of the Snowball; our intrepid dance mistress, Ldy. Felicia Debbage. Now here was another person of great merit. Anyone who can wrangle that many dance people and A&S Classes deserves a round of applause, a few hoots and some whistles and cat calls. Just keep the heckling down or I know a large group of people who will just stomp you but good. Speaking of stomping, there is Joel. I want to single him out. Okay, it is Joel so we had better dual him out, just for fairness sake.
ÿHe worked like a slave through the whole event and then felt bad he could not do more. Hats off to you, my friend, you did more than 3 men?s shares of work so stand easy. Then there was my good friendÿLrd Torquil Mc Alpine. He ran every bit of food and drink we had at the event around, moved people and placed signs and got coffee and ran for stuff. I knew I picked the right man for the job. Then lastly, but not least there is Pete (Connic an Russell). My little brother who stood above what was expected of him and showed he is a man of integrity, ingenuity and perseverance in his own right.
The true bottom line of all this was not just an event for us, but for all the kids. I hope everyone takes a little time this season to feel extra good about themselves for having helped make a better holidays forÿkids who may not have had one without all of you. The Autocrat authorizes you to take a warm-fuzzy feeling during the holidays for doing good. The paperwork now seems all to be finished except a few mailings. We did the books and I am sorry to say we lost money. We tried to keep a tight reign on thingsÿbut it seems it did get away from us a little, and for that I am sorry.
So here ends my tenure as Autocrat.
Whew, I'm spent!!

PS- We lost about $8.60 total. He he he, not too bad after all hu? :)
PSS- Hey all you out there! Pay attention to these people mentioned here, they deserve it!!!!!

Till next time,
Be mindful and awake

It is quiet, almost too quiet.

Slowly the mists of the early morning drift over our bunker. We can
hear them off in the distance as the occasional beam of light peers
through the soup of the early sky. I know they will come soon, creeping.
They will come, moving quietly through the grey and getting closer,
armed, with intent. I can hear their voices on the squak box, remote
and almost inhuman.

*BEEP* "Hello? This is Flarby Danslfaby and I was calling for information about the event…"

Their voices fade out and back in like someone from another time struggling to communicate through the ether.

"An about feast…gruble mungle frable If you could give me a call after fibkler o’clock at 740-553-271murble….THANK YOU!"*BEEP*

Caller ID with a phone that can recall numbers; a gift from the gods of telecom.

Soon it will all end. Only 4 days till the horror ends.

http://www.dernehealde.org/snowballEvent.php

Que? (Or Mr Windows goes to El Explodo!)

Well I'm back. In truth I never left just went quiet for a while, but with good reason.

One thing every windows user, who pays attention, anyway, fears is the dreaded Windows Crash. Now, before all you Mac people start getting all high and might, my Mac has crashed too.

I kind of think of it like this: The average person drives an average car with average performance specs and it runs fairly well. I am not an average person, nor do I run an average system and the specs of mine are tweaked out and monkeyed with until it is doing things it may or may not be designed to do. I drive more of a custom nightmare sports car in a cop movie chase driven by a mad scientist. It is not if it is going to crash, it is just a matter of when.

So, all said and done when my HD crapped itself I lost two files. One was an MP3 and the other was a text file for a game I no linger play. Needless to say it was brown-trousers time all around when I saw the blue screen. My sound card on the motherboard took a bongle as well. So, after about 7 hours of work, all is well and back to nermal.

I did turn out a new book here of late at the request of Judi. Maybe with a little sweet talk, some promises to be redeemed later and a little standard begging I can get her to take some pictures of it for me so I can post them here.

This may be the last update for a week or 3 as I am getting ready for my classes final and our event for the Shire is coming up real fast.

Albatross, I shot it, now I have to wear it.

Till next time,
Be mindful and awake.

Arrrgh!

My pirate name is:

Bloody William Bonney

Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it's the open sea. For others (the masochists), it's the food. For you, it's definitely the fighting. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

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